New Zealand is a country that is influenced almost everywhere by the sea and mountains. You always dress for unexpected changes in the weather. In March, the weather is often beautiful and sunny with pleasant temperatures.
Harvest has started and will usually continue into April and sometimes until the beginning of May. Although this is a relatively small country, the growing conditions between the South and the North Island vary, and that is why we find several grape varieties grown here, both cool climate ones such as pinot noir and riesling, and more warm climate grapes like cabernet sauvignon. Sauvignon blanc is the most planted grape, but we will taste many other grape varieties on the tour.
You will see a great deal of New Zealand on this tour. We travel by comfortable bus (and ferry) from Auckland, the biggest city in the country, down to Queenstown, where the tour ends. We visit the main wine regions: Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa, Marlborough and Central Otago.
In between the wine visits and wine tastings, we watch geysers and other geothermal phenomena, learn about the Maori culture, take a boat on a glacial lake and taste gastronomic specialities such as green-lipped mussels and local “crayfish” (New Zealand lobster). We will stay in Auckland, Taupo, Napier, Martinborough, Blenheim, Christchurch, Mount Cook and Queenstown during the tour.
Come on this stunning wine tour to New Zealand with Britt and Per of BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
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(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
More inspiration: You can get an even better feeling for what you will experience on this tour if you visit the latest tour’s own Facebook group. Lots of pictures and videos from the tour (join the group and you’ll get an update when we post new contents): The wine tour to New Zealand 2025.
